In 1516 Erasmus of Rotterdam published a work by his friend Thomas More. It was a scathing portrait of Renaissance Europe, accompanied, by contrast, by a description of an ideal place: Utopia, a remote island in the New World governed with moderation and where all the inhabitants lived in harmony. What the English humanist conceived as an " entertaining little book" and fantasy, however, ended up far surpassing its narrative framework. That critique of the established social order became a masterpiece of thought that transcended time and frontiers to the point of giving rise to a new term: our " utopia" .
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